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. >> before this election, what grade would you get yourself and your agency? >> clearly, if you look at where the housing market is in the improvements that have happened, there is no question, i will let others assign letter grades, that is not my job. there are things we have done that worked very well. refinancing is an area where we made changes last year. we have far more people participate than expected. there are other things we have done that have fallen short. we have gone to other programs and made changes. those are now working effectively. the big question is not what letter grade you give. tt is whether home owners are better off and whether we are making a difference in their lives. housing prices have been up substantially. 1.3 million families have gotten back above water on their mortgages. we had about $860 billion of new home equity created in the first six months of this year. clearly, are we where we need to be? have we completed a recovery? absolutely not. there is no question that we're moving forward in the housing market has gotten bet
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check out the movie wag the dog where the white house on the eve of a presidential election lies about a war to cover up an impending scandal. >> yes. albania situation in ail buena related in any way. >> oh, my goodness, there you go. there is a little help. >> countries that have fundamentalist movements. >> judge jeanine: why do i feel that movie is hitting a little too close to home these days. there are characters and let me introduce them. president barack obama. white house spokesman jay carney. ambassador susan rice. secretary of state hillary clinton. the script an awful internet video that set the middle east on fire. add for a little drama libyan president who calls the white house script prepostorrous. enter cn. in with the murdered ambassador's journal. the plot thickens. the ambassador writes he is on an al-qaeda hit list and wor worried about his embacy. the white house writes an investigation is in order and within three days concludes it was terrorism. man, that was one fast investigation. by the way, had the lead agency the fbi even gone into benghazi? is it safe yet?
check out the movie wag the dog where the white house on the eve of a presidential election lies about a war to cover up an impending scandal. >> yes. albania situation in ail buena related in any way. >> oh, my goodness, there you go. there is a little help. >> countries that have fundamentalist movements. >> judge jeanine: why do i feel that movie is hitting a little too close to home these days. there are characters and let me introduce them. president barack obama....
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here comes the biggest election of this century. suddenly we have an incredible improvement in unemployment, something that takes the calendar back four years. you worked in the bls. you know how this works. can these numbers be manipulated? >> no, they really can't. it would be extremely hard to manipulate the numbers. absolutely impossible to manipulate and get away with. bls is comprised of career people who are dedicated to their work. nothing but career people there. a real strong sense of objectivity in what they do. would just be impossible to work these numbers. interpreting the numbers is a different issue. the unemployment rate really did go down, and it really was from the household survey. i can tell you, when i look at these reports the first in a look at is not the unemployment rate. it's the number of payroll jobs created. in line the last 67 months, and that survey is of very large survey. is surveying not only 400,000 businesses, its really looking at the employment records of 40 million people. so this is very accu
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>>gregg: it is a national popular election. that brings me to the real clear politics electoral map. you have to win the states that have the big numbers attached. not election were held today, here is what you would have. obama at 265, five shy of what you have to get and romney at 191. i would say the polls and that electoral map is the best thing that could happen to romney. when it was a tie race, his natural instinct to play it safe overrode everything. now this is no doubt that he is behind, not fatally behind as pat and doug said, but he is behind the he has to change course. obviously, wednesday night is the last opportunity to change course. i think he started changing last week, took all of the ads off, put a new ad in, just himself, talking to the american people. >>gregg: let's lay the new ad with governor romney talking to the camera. >> president obama and i both care about poor and middle-class families. the difference is my policies will make things better for them. we should not measure compassion by how many p
>>gregg: it is a national popular election. that brings me to the real clear politics electoral map. you have to win the states that have the big numbers attached. not election were held today, here is what you would have. obama at 265, five shy of what you have to get and romney at 191. i would say the polls and that electoral map is the best thing that could happen to romney. when it was a tie race, his natural instinct to play it safe overrode everything. now this is no doubt that he...
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. >> hugo chavez came to the victory in the as well as a presidential election. what does he have in store for his next term? welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. a team has uncovered evidence which could prove that syrian rebels are getting military assistance from the gulf region. rebel fighter base in aleppo, our journalist found weapons creates a trust to saudi arabia. our correspondent and cameramen filed this report on the battle for aleppo. thousands of years of history have marched through the streets. an ancient city that has been fought over many times before. today, aleppo is at war again. the further you edge into the old city, the sound and fury of battle grows. those who stayed behind must cheat death every day. a simple sign reads, do not cross, sniper to your left. seven or eight people were killed to last week, he says. the rebels have moved into the path of the old city. activist took us there. a world heritage site where the scars of battle run deep and the devastation is mounting. aleppo is a city under
. >> hugo chavez came to the victory in the as well as a presidential election. what does he have in store for his next term? welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. a team has uncovered evidence which could prove that syrian rebels are getting military assistance from the gulf region. rebel fighter base in aleppo, our journalist found weapons creates a trust to saudi arabia. our correspondent and cameramen filed this report on the battle for aleppo....
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. >> citizens elect represen representatives to select passing laws. that's how democracy is sup to work. now questions about whether the epa with the help of environmental groups has ceased power that voters can no longer control. >> 2010 the northwest environmental defense center convinces accord that money water running off logging roads is industrial pollution requiring an epa clean water permit. the timber industry says it will cost thousands of dollars kicos thousands of jobs without any environ tament benefit. 2009 another environmental group the chesapeake bay foundation sues to force the epa to crack down on water runoff for farms along the bay. the epa settled and i am posed strict new rules that the american farm bureau says will cost billions of dollars. 2011 the epa poses stricter limits on pesticide use than congress requires. environmental groups sued saying law americas were being too lenient. just a few cases that show how environmental groups ex tort influence over the epa. >> they used a lot of litigation to get federal judges they o
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we await the election results. >>heather: a couple claiming top prize in the 13,000 annual north american wife carrying championship. this is no family picnic race. no way. take a look. 50 couples braving a log hurdle, a pond, and a sand trap on the 278-yard obstacle course. the winners earn cash prices as they cross the finish line. the first was there in under 53 seconds. >> you can run so fast but...the hand off...you must...be very careful. >>heather: the winning couple has won the world-wide wife carrying championship four years in a row. i want to know right there, what would kate do if you were carrying her backwards upside down through mud? >>gregg: i would trip, surely and we would both be in it. >>gregg: you might have seen governor romney's performance at the first presidential debate but before that happened, did you catch this? >> what does romney have to do? >> romney needs to articulate a plan as to what he is going to do to change america. pat's right, he has to make himself accessible to the americ
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one month away from election day. president obama taking some time off the campaign trail this weekend while governor romney is scheduled to speak at a campaign rally in battleground state of florida tonight. >> heather: a tour bus overturns in new jersey exit and 19 people were hurt including children. cause of the crash unclear. >> gregg: a firefight between turkey and syria continues for a fourth straight day today. it all began when a syrian border shell landed near a turkish village killing five civilians. turkey has been firing into syria every day since. >> heather: defense secretary leon panetta weighing in on the deadly attack in libya. he says that the u.s. is now investigating a potential new lead in the case. this as new questions arise about whether the obama administration could have done more to protect the four americans who were murdered in the terrorist attack. peter doocy has more from washington. >> reporter: it's been 25 days since four americans were murdered in libya. latest word from the defens
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there is too much for them to say what they need to to get elected. the campaigns are not public policy seminars. they are going to do what politicians have been doing for centuries. where i think we can have some effect, and i think where the evidence is coming out today that there is some effect, we can help those voters that care, and a lot of them do not. they are just going to vote for their person, no matter what, and they do not want to hear it, whether the candidate is saying something wrong -- that is fine. and you will hear more about this later. i think what the data is showing is that those who click into some sort of fact checking web site have better knowledge of what the issues are than those that do not. i think that is good for democracy. i think some of these results are pretty depressing about the general level of ignorance. they are exacerbating that rather than helping it in some cases, so we provide something of an antidote for that. that is my view. do you add to that? rebuttals? >> i write for voters, not politicians, and a lar
there is too much for them to say what they need to to get elected. the campaigns are not public policy seminars. they are going to do what politicians have been doing for centuries. where i think we can have some effect, and i think where the evidence is coming out today that there is some effect, we can help those voters that care, and a lot of them do not. they are just going to vote for their person, no matter what, and they do not want to hear it, whether the candidate is saying something...
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election day. and all tar political line up and author ann coult are and governor mike huckabee and michael reagan. join us for all that and much more coming your way. stay with us. >> grab a coat and your checkbook. it could be a cold and costly winter. new report said fracking and contaminated water. now, johnathon is worried that it will lead to a crack down for fracking for natural gas. >> the reason that oil prices have gone up is because of technology like fracking. it saved american consumers cane billion last year and led to economic boom in north dakota that has a three percent unemployment rate because of the jobs created by that. fracking is safe over decades. if rights are harmed there are army of lawyers that address the grevance. any regulation on fracking hurts mankind and in the wallet. >> say fracking 10 times quickly. wayne, if the epa uses the example to go after natural gas over all is hagoing to hurt utility bills. >> of course it will. johnathon is wrong. you have to have rule
election day. and all tar political line up and author ann coult are and governor mike huckabee and michael reagan. join us for all that and much more coming your way. stay with us. >> grab a coat and your checkbook. it could be a cold and costly winter. new report said fracking and contaminated water. now, johnathon is worried that it will lead to a crack down for fracking for natural gas. >> the reason that oil prices have gone up is because of technology like fracking. it saved...
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frankly i don't think there is anything close about this election. there is something very profound going on out there that the polls are just not picking up. i think the election will be decided on the answer to the very same question that ronald reagan posed in 1980, are you better off today than you were four years ago. everybody can answer that question for himself. is not going to be influenced by ads or by the debate results or by clever spend doctors. i can not imagine the american people want to go another four years down the road we're currently on. melissa: congressman, thank you for coming on. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. melissa: oil companies are dumping campaign cash on mitt romney's lap but are they giving it to the wrong guy? a new study finds the industry actually fares far better when a democrat is in the white house. i was shocked by these stats. i have followed this industry for a long time. you want to stay tuned for this story. >>> plus the obama administration pushes to give $450 million in emergency aid to egypt. top
frankly i don't think there is anything close about this election. there is something very profound going on out there that the polls are just not picking up. i think the election will be decided on the answer to the very same question that ronald reagan posed in 1980, are you better off today than you were four years ago. everybody can answer that question for himself. is not going to be influenced by ads or by the debate results or by clever spend doctors. i can not imagine the american...
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>> i want to talk about the election. >> judge jeanine: will the debate change the election. >> it changed the narrative in the campaign. the polls are about dead even, now. >> judge jeanine: in fact, even more than that. >> swing states dead even and bottom line we now all have a situation and noelle can speak to this better that the money advantage which was president obama's in september, $181 million i think is going to swing in governor romney's election. >> right after this debate when looked at msnbc i switched oh remember to make sure that they were going to validate our opinion of us wining that race or us winning that debate and we had chris matthews out there. >> judge jeanine: he was trashing the president he was so angry. cnn, 57% say romney won. >> this is all coming down to fund raising. romney's fund raising has picked up totally. i had three donors emale me around midnight stating they were going to rally the troops and these are big donors. >> judge jeanine: is it going to matter in terms of the money going forward? >> yes, it will but the big date is the next debate i th
>> i want to talk about the election. >> judge jeanine: will the debate change the election. >> it changed the narrative in the campaign. the polls are about dead even, now. >> judge jeanine: in fact, even more than that. >> swing states dead even and bottom line we now all have a situation and noelle can speak to this better that the money advantage which was president obama's in september, $181 million i think is going to swing in governor romney's election....
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. >> always of the election. we need that help now. >>> it is now 47 after the top of the hour. the bizarre seating situation at american airlines could be more widespread that n we first thought. we will have a live report coming up. >>> after a sharp drop in absentee ballots by the nation's members of the military is the pentagon doing much to help the votes next year? we will read your e-mails to find out. good morning, brian. >> good morning to you. it will be unusual. pregame show. we are talking about debate number one. arguably the most important debate. the problem is we don't have any big names except bill o'reilly he's really tall. laura ingram she is kind of good and arnold schwarzenegger i guess we do have big names. talks about the military and winning the super bowl. barry sanders talks about great nfl history and my former band banana ramah is here. i can't wait for the reunion. it will be exciting. the governor wrote a book page 550. 50 pages left. >> good morning. it is 8 minutes before the hour.
. >> always of the election. we need that help now. >>> it is now 47 after the top of the hour. the bizarre seating situation at american airlines could be more widespread that n we first thought. we will have a live report coming up. >>> after a sharp drop in absentee ballots by the nation's members of the military is the pentagon doing much to help the votes next year? we will read your e-mails to find out. good morning, brian. >> good morning to you. it will be...
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justice o'connor who've retired in 2005 was the only member of the court she served on who had been in elective office. she had been majority leader of the arizona state senate and there is nobody there that has ever had to face the public and, you know, for some of them i'd sure that that is a good thing. but it's kind of a narrow professional biography that's pretty interesting. what that reflects is the current state of the confirmation process. presidents don't want to take a chance. how do you not take a chance? you get somebody that has already been acting as a judge and you get to look at how they have performed as a judge and a deal with legal materials and how they comport themselves and so on. that is a kind of very rough proxy for how they might be hit on the u.s. supreme court of course because you are found by the supreme court presidents and they cannot go off on their own frolic and once you are on the supreme court they'll pay homage to this notion you've heard starting to stand by the president, but that doesn't mean they have to. they can do what they call what the five votes
justice o'connor who've retired in 2005 was the only member of the court she served on who had been in elective office. she had been majority leader of the arizona state senate and there is nobody there that has ever had to face the public and, you know, for some of them i'd sure that that is a good thing. but it's kind of a narrow professional biography that's pretty interesting. what that reflects is the current state of the confirmation process. presidents don't want to take a chance. how do...
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in time for the election. they are allowed to cast a provisional ballot that can be contested at some point so it wouldn't stop someone from voting if they have got a good excuse. >> well, first off, no one will be allowed or no one will be prevented from voting once the law were to go into effect. it will be just as it was before the law goes into effect. just like is you said we will have a reasonable impediment provision that allows people to vote should they not have a photo i.d. and they can still use the voter registration card with the photo attached to it. >> you were the only state as i underand it it that has now an active ongoing case against the president's healthcare law and you concerns with how it would be implemented and irs powers. tell us about the case you have going right now. >> shannon, you are, correct. when we filed our lawsuit in january of 2012 w 2011 we begae legislation and it was stayed here in oklahoma while the supreme court dealt with the issue at u.s. supreme court level. when
in time for the election. they are allowed to cast a provisional ballot that can be contested at some point so it wouldn't stop someone from voting if they have got a good excuse. >> well, first off, no one will be allowed or no one will be prevented from voting once the law were to go into effect. it will be just as it was before the law goes into effect. just like is you said we will have a reasonable impediment provision that allows people to vote should they not have a photo i.d. and...
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op oill the ladies put the election day? that's what mr. obama is hoping. we'll ha anasis. >> holding a book and trying to get my reading glaes to wor >> bil we might be able to re shall i turnhe pe? "the factor" is all over the place todayhaking tnghi upn tv andadio. we'll show you how went. >> that epic debate, the one withyou andon swart, what are you doing to prepa? >> taking a na >> bill: caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. hi. i'm bill o'reilly. thks for watching us tonight' is the presint's foreign policy falling apart? that is the subject of this evening's taing points memo. jon stewart mocki presidenobama over the libyan assassination situation. that's not good news the president because up until now, much of e liberal media has ignored theac surrounding the terrorist tack on ambassador christopher stevens. last n stewart went t town. >> so the administration' story was anti-muim video on youtube uched off massive protest o vend to spread quick to7 other places. seems implausib, but two days later, they
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call or click today. [ grunting ] lou: 39 days until election day. in presidential politics one week could make the difference. the president is leading in the swing states but they are not always the best predictor. mike emanuel has our report. >> polls but up and down. >> history shows september the its kid evaporate. hubert humphrey was down 15 points to nixon. nixon won by less than 1%. carter had 33% bid over ford. after the debate he cut -- could data five points. carter seemed to have a consistent advantage although the final debate changed everything. no obama is showing a lead over romney the pollsters say finding the right sample can be tricky. >> we know from ex polls republican respond less from new or -- news organizations and democrat. >> gallop had michael dukakis leading by 17 points but lost by 17.5%. he was tied with clinton in october although he one. one pollster questions the assumption made from today's polls. >> they assume you have the same high level of african-american, latino, yo ung people from 2008. >> david axelrod said
call or click today. [ grunting ] lou: 39 days until election day. in presidential politics one week could make the difference. the president is leading in the swing states but they are not always the best predictor. mike emanuel has our report. >> polls but up and down. >> history shows september the its kid evaporate. hubert humphrey was down 15 points to nixon. nixon won by less than 1%. carter had 33% bid over ford. after the debate he cut -- could data five points. carter...
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they want hip, if he gets elected, to do what they say. and on top of that, he didn't mention his name, but paul ryan would be his vice president. paul ryan is the one, i mean mitt romney says he has a 59-point plan, but paul ryan actually has a budget and it's a budget that goes far and away and is very specific in ways that romney has not been. if he's really this pragmatic guy, then he's going to be forced to do things that naturally he wouldn't want to do. >>> i have read that much. it's way more than 59 points. maggie, in wednesday's debate, one thing i think has been a little bit conflated here, did you see mitt romney actually shifting positions or emphasizing different elements of his positions? because when i watched and what i saw was a different approach to governance on display and a very different set of policies he was underscoring but not actually going off any of the policies he had espoused up to that night. >> i think you're right. what's been different was tone more than substance, style more than substance. i also think
they want hip, if he gets elected, to do what they say. and on top of that, he didn't mention his name, but paul ryan would be his vice president. paul ryan is the one, i mean mitt romney says he has a 59-point plan, but paul ryan actually has a budget and it's a budget that goes far and away and is very specific in ways that romney has not been. if he's really this pragmatic guy, then he's going to be forced to do things that naturally he wouldn't want to do. >>> i have read that...
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>> obama every election campaign knows they are in trouble with catholics. individual calls are going out telling blatant bias about the president's position saying he does not support abortion. is the most extreme president on that issue this country has ever seen. lou: thank you for your voices. angry liberal bill more is added again. he hates republicans republicans, president obama we have that next. the president's confusing lack of transparency on the murder of our ambassador. comparing benghazi to watergate. author of the amateur joins us. and karl rove among our and karl rove among our guest next week.ve lately. but because of business people like you, things are beginning to get rolling. and regions is here to help. making it easier with the expertise and service to keep those wheels turning. from business loans to cash management, we want to be your partner moving forward. so switch to regions. and let's get going. together. lou: united nations on a mission to become the tax master. considering new global taxes to transfer trillions of dollars. amo
>> obama every election campaign knows they are in trouble with catholics. individual calls are going out telling blatant bias about the president's position saying he does not support abortion. is the most extreme president on that issue this country has ever seen. lou: thank you for your voices. angry liberal bill more is added again. he hates republicans republicans, president obama we have that next. the president's confusing lack of transparency on the murder of our ambassador....
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what is wrong with a six with the general election? >> it is not our obligation to help you in getting free media coverage. you convey your message to the texas voters. i'm convey my message. >> as he said to the tenant governor, the critical point to do. you have the opportunity now. even to the tea party debate which would not do. you face me now? >> we are sitting here now. can launch every attack you want to right now on television to read this is a roundtable. >> i know you did not know enough about government. >> may be in it -- instead of saying i am scared to face you, i am facing you right now. forward and we will see if there are more debate later on. >> the issue of government assistance and who pays for them and receive them. the city recorded a video at mitt romney -- the secret recorded video of mitt romney at a private fund-raiser. let's take a look. >> 47% -- >> in 2010, 38.5% of texans filing a retirement paid no income tax. there is no complete data on who get government assistance but last year, 24% of households get
what is wrong with a six with the general election? >> it is not our obligation to help you in getting free media coverage. you convey your message to the texas voters. i'm convey my message. >> as he said to the tenant governor, the critical point to do. you have the opportunity now. even to the tea party debate which would not do. you face me now? >> we are sitting here now. can launch every attack you want to right now on television to read this is a roundtable. >> i...
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clearly does not want those layoff notices delivered just days before the election. >> president obama downplaying expectations for wedneay's debate. saying he is an okay debater, according to a new washington post abc news poll, 55 percent of likely voters think that president will win this first debate, and 41% think that romney will win. joining me now, ed klein, author of "new york times" best seller "the amateur." great to see you, this is cute, the downplay, one of these, i can't think of another moment of modesty on the part of this president other than this example of trying to manage expectations. >> the golden-floated orator is bumbling,. lou: the idea he is such a heavy favorite to win the debate, that has to work in governor romney's favor. >> almost 6 out of 10 americans think that obama will take this debate, romney goes in as under dog with low expectations, if he does well, he will exceed those expectations. i think he has a good chance of winning this debate. lou: what about, you made it clear, you are not overly impressed with the mr. obama's capabilities, he is no bi
clearly does not want those layoff notices delivered just days before the election. >> president obama downplaying expectations for wedneay's debate. saying he is an okay debater, according to a new washington post abc news poll, 55 percent of likely voters think that president will win this first debate, and 41% think that romney will win. joining me now, ed klein, author of "new york times" best seller "the amateur." great to see you, this is cute, the downplay, one...